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Ancient Hebrew Law was just, and sometimes harsh; but it was neither cruel nor demeaning. Sometimes neighbor-love requires tough measures. Am I prepared to deal with any disputes and disagreements today, in a manner consistent with the justice and love of God?
Evening Meditation
Deuteronomy 17.8-13
8 “If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORDyour God chooses. 9 And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge there in those days, and inquire of them; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment. 10 You shall do according to the sentence they pronounce upon you in that place which the LORDchooses. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you. 11 According to the sentence of the law in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside tothe right hand or tothe left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you. 12 Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the LORDyour God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.”
Here, at the end of the day, can I say confidently before the Lord, “All the Lord has spoken, I have done”?
T. M. Moore
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